MOVIE · 1952
Hans Christian Andersen
ComedyFamilyMusicalRomance120 min
Danny Kaye is Hans, a small-town Danish shoemaker whose gift for spinning stories pulls him beyond village life and toward Copenhagen, where happiness and heartbreak shadow his move toward becoming a writer. Farley Granger and ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire join him in a musical portrait that threads romance and ballet through Andersen’s rise, folding in storybook touches from tales like Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling as the future author turns everyday moments into performance and fantasy.
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